BrendanP hits it on the nail when he said:
"I'd suggest anyone who goes to the trouble of acquiring some picaxes,a breadboard/pcb etc, then finds this forum, then posts a question has already shown they're willing to have a go. 99.999% people don't even get that far."
Picaxes are for starting with, for learning what microcontrollers can do, hence its inevitable that newbies will ask dumb questions. (They're also for continuing with, but I digress.)
There would be less newbie questions if there were better tutorials, code libraries, more detailed FAQs. The forums are hard to search. The web is hard to search if you are starting from very little knowledge. If don't know that an integrator circuit is called an integrator circuit, you're not going to find schematics or code samples.
Help from members of this board has got my first circuit in 15 years working just as I need it to work, and I'm very grateful.
I might have a Ph.D. in engineering but it's materials not electronics, so I would have been most stumped without your support.
And yes, I might be Dr Happyinmotion, but I still put resistors in the wrong way around.